Experience Coram’s new immersive, audio-visual installation, exploring the past and present of the British care system.

Echoes of Care uses audio-visual and light installations, as well as other media, to place the Foundling Hospital side by side with the modern day care system. From 1741 to 1954, the Foundling Hospital supported 27,000 children, offering them security from birth until the age of 21. It continues today as Coram.

The artwork blends the voices of contemporary care-experienced young people with the stories of Foundlings, their mothers and others linked to the Foundling Hospital in its earliest years. Collapsing the past into the present and focusing on young people’s journeys and the relationships forged along the way, it asks timeless questions – what does ‘good’ care mean? What does this mean for the care system of the future?

This immersive artwork was made possible by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, which supported the digitisation of Coram’s Foundling Hospital Archive.

OPENING TIMES:
Mon – Fri 9am – 5pm